Add live RSS feeds for each section. For instance, you can use: http://makezine.com/feed/ or a live feed from your site.

2. Change the default search site to a live site: In the same control panel, look for the Search Site tab. Add a new search site to something live. This can be your site or something else, like http://makezine.com/. Move this up in the list to be the default.

3. To see related posts, use the Add Related Posts button, and choose a few stories. It may take a few minutes to get the images, but, again, this is working on a site we haven't crawled yet.

This will let you try the Add Related Posts Button, the Sidebar button and the Single link button.

Why this is hard:

Contextly learns about new content via the headers of a published blog post, but if this is on localhost or a password-protected server, we can't learn the content.

Additionally, most staging servers set robots.txt to disallow, and our spider respects robots.txt.

We also use A/B testing to test related, and live traffic to figure out the interesting section (popular, evergreen and personalization.)

Let us know if you have any questions by writing us at info@contextly.com